Dogs vs Sparrow - What's the difference?
dogs | sparrow |
English plurals
(slang, US) Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat .
a greyhound racing event.
(nautical) Fasteners securing a watertight hatch.
(dog)
The house sparrow, Passer domesticus ; a small bird with a short bill, and brown, white and gray feathers.
A member of the family Passeridae, comprising small Old World songbirds.
A member of the family Emberizidae, comprising small New World songbirds.
Generically, any small, nondescript bird.
(UK, chiefly, London) A quick-witted, lively person. Often used in the phrase cockney sparrow .
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* 1878 , Ally Sloper's guide to the Paris exhibition , Charles Henry Ross, p. 54
As a noun dogs
is .As a verb dogs
is (dog).As a proper noun sparrow is
.dogs
English
Noun
- My dogs are tired. Let's get a taxi.
- I lost money at the dogs last night.
Derived terms
* dogs bark * gone to the dogsVerb
(head)Anagrams
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(head)sparrow
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(wikipedia sparrow)Noun
(en noun)Drama Faces: Martine McCutcheon, BBC
- Professional cockney sparrow Martine has acted since childhood.
- I take it there 's scarcely a happier fellow alive than your honest town-bred smoke-dried cockney sparrow .